To: Savage Beast
Why - Demographics. I have 2 kids as well.
As you rightly point out, Europe is in a demographic death-spiral because they aren’t having kids. You need to have at least 3 kids for your population to grow. I was just curious how many you had. For you and I with 2 kids each, the population is holding steady, but not growing.
34 posted on
05/11/2012 2:20:13 PM PDT by
Owl558
("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
To: Owl558
It was a mistake for me to have only two. If I had it to do over I would have at least three or four. I am a self-made man. I was very poor when I was growing up. My father died when I was 14 years old. I was and still am phobic about poverty. I made lots of money, but I was always afraid that I couldn't take care of as many children as I would like to have had. In retrospect I could have done so easily.
In the generations before our grandparents, it was commonplace for people to have 5 or 10 or more children.
35 posted on
05/11/2012 5:41:43 PM PDT by
Savage Beast
("You can, in fact must, shout fire in a crowded theatre. It just has to be the truth. " J. Goldberg)
To: Owl558
As someone observed here on FR a while back, the people of the West have aborted, birth controlled, and homosexualized themselves into oblivion.
I suspect that the decadent Western Leftists' Islamophilia may be a subconscious desire for the absolutes that Islam promises.
36 posted on
05/11/2012 5:47:13 PM PDT by
Savage Beast
("You can, in fact must, shout fire in a crowded theatre. It just has to be the truth. " J. Goldberg)
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